Highland High School - Highlander Yearbook (Anderson, IN)

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Potential Collegians Gain Balanced Education in Rigid Academic Course How many characters in this line of copy? was one of the familiar queries of young iournalists in rooms 7 and 26. Juniors and seniors were eligible to apply for positions on the newspaper and yearbook staffs. Journalistic procedures were learned in editing and publishing The Tartan and Highlander. Chant many teens, I can't wait until l'm io! Driver's education is designed to teach beginning drivers the laws established in governing the road and the fundamentals needed in handling an automobile. Students planning on receiving higher education following graduation choose the college preparatory course. Requirements which offer a bal- anced education to college-bound students include mathematics, foreign language, science and three or four units of English. Potential collegians must also take physical education, personal hygiene and social studies in preparation for future schooling. Freedom Shrine essays, term papers and literature note cards are maior assignments all Lads and Lasses must undertake during their high school days. Three years of English are essential to graduate in any of the courses. Even a casual conversation requires a working knowledge of the fundamentals of grammar. Self-confidence and poise were gained by Highlanders as they completed Speech. Literature exposes Scots to the thoughts of other people which may be very comparable or extremely controversial with their thinking pat- terns. Sophomore literature teachers experimented with a new standard for teaching literature called Phase Learning. To help each student dis- cover an area of literature in which he has a definite interest is its chief obiective. Poetry, drama, short stories, iournalism, fiction, non-fiction and biography are the phases of study. Communication, by the means of language, is essential to the people of the modern world. Growing each year is the foreign language de- partment. Added to the curriculum last year was Spanish, this year French was the addition. While discussing the exact details of the Scholastic Aptitude Test with Jack Lutz, Mr. Green points out the dates the test will be offered. Using the model of an eye as a visual aid, Mr. Smith informs an interested student of the eye's complex construction. Mr. O'Neal points out Nepal, tiny kingdom nestled in the Himalayas, to Judy Wheawill in an after-class geographical search for remote nations i7

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Hi il School Science Opens Door to Future Atomic Age Discoveries Prehistoric man's fundamental achievements have given science of today its basis for advancement. Like these early accomplishments, high school science opens the door to immense discoveries as well as putting basic science into practical use. Many strange, even undesirable, odors stream from the science labs during any hour of the school day. Odors could originate from a preservation fluid for insects or a chemical experiment. When early man wanted to measure the obiects in the world about him, arithmetic originated. Mathematics soon became the tool of all other sciences. Proving a newly-discussed math problem brings satisfaction to many Lads and Lasses. What is personality? What is the basic problem between labor and management? How do we know modified capitalism is the best economic system? Answers to these and many other questions may be found in psychology, economics and sociology. Displaying his completed project for Latin class, Charlie Boren reveals the secret trap door to his model of the Trojan horse. Connie McClain waits tensely and expectantly for the signal ro begin typing. -- ' - ms.ze5i-its